The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-07-06
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

Hon. G. J. Monroe was in town yesterday.
There were five Wednesdays in last month,
eh, lie Roy?
Broughton proposes to make things easy
for your feet.
Mrs DR.. Andrews is absent on visit to
friends at Whitehall.
w. S. Jones spent the Fourth with his
parents in this village.
Mr.. o. b. Hayden left here on Monday
last for Redfield Dakota.
b. +. Warner has gone on business trip
through northern Michigan.
The drouth was broken by welcome show
ers last Thursday afternoon.
Charley Young has gone to story writing
90 A tale of Brazil" this week.
Mrs. C. l.. Fitch of Grand Rapids, has
been visiting friends in this village.
Several Paw Paw boys took in the Detroit
Boston ball games at Detroit on the Fourth.
Allen Harwick of Antwerp, is very ILL., At
latest advices he was thought to be slightly
better.
Yves says the Deering binders do not re-
uulIo lne aiu VI All SAPcll' tHSy o'oAt lheih
selves.
w. w. Smith has bought out Cooley's in
terest in the grocery business. Eaton &
Smith now.
Mrs. Ellen Rowland has improved the
appearance of her dwelling by a couple of
coats of paint.
Rev. Arthur Greenleaf of Battle Creek,
tx = NaI
nesday-evening.
X. w. Noyes came home from Lansing last
Saturday on a visit to his family and friends.
He returned yesterday.
Born, July 1st, to Mr.. and Mrs Chas.
Chappell, a boy baby, and Charley is happy
as clam at high water.
Hurd, our genial station agent, is lone
grass widower, his wife and babies being alb
sent on a visit at Coldwater.
Some of our farmers had their wheat crop
secured during the month of June. Was
such thing ever known before:
Filley not to be behind his neighbors, has
built new walk in front of his billiard hall.
Stickney, the shoemaker, has followed suit.
Jay advertises three specialties this week:
1t pays to be around on his special sale days.
Dowagiac was among the towns that Gel
ebrated on Saturday, the I'd of July, just to
accommodate her saloon keepers, you know.
Miss Mamie Rooms will close her school in
the Hunt district, Antwerp next Friday. II
is her first school and has been very sue
cessful one.
ito -, oIo
brate on Saturday and, very properly, held
| its jubilee on Monday, the fourth. Sensible
Bangorians.
The following letters remained uncalled
for i'll our postoflice for the week ending July
4th: Mrs. Robert Buck, Mrs. Curtis Cook
l.. ID. Pierie.
William Fitch, late of Mattawan, has be-
come resident of this town, being an occu.
pant of the residence of his father, the late
| Lyman Fitch.
We are informed that b. A. Olney of Hart
ford, is seriously ill., He is getting we'll along
in years and it would not be at all surprising
if he failed to rally.
Mrs. A. G. Martin and Miss Kate Geo.
book went to Schoolcraft last week to visit
their friend and former companion teacher
Miss Ella Thomas.
Floral hail. on the Dowagiac Union Fail
ground was destroyed by fire one night last
week. Origin of fire involved in mystery
Insured for $4,000.
Mr.. S. II. Blackman accompanied his son
in-law and daughter TO their home in Bay
City on Saturday last. He intends to remain
there some little time.
The soda fountain case of Wheaton VS.
Cooley IL Eaton, mentioned in last weeks
NoRTHERNER. has been appealed by the plant
if to the circuit court.
L. j.. Stevens and G.. w. Hines have oon,
into the steam generator, feed cooker anc
washer business. The machines are mann
factured by j. II. Waters of this village.
Ira Everett, formerly of this place. is visit
ing his parents and friends here He is from
Wichita. Kansas, which place he reports tc
be thriving city of $4,000 inhabitants.
Fenner Hayes was one Of forty successful
guessers on the standing of the league clubs
at the close of last month. He gets Just
quarter of a dollars worth of the prize offered
by the Detroit Tribune.
While in attendance at the recent Lansing
races, Mr.. Thos. Welch of this village, sold
his celebrated mare, Lucy Wilkes, to DIR. f
ID. Clarke, the famous patent medicine man
of Chicago, for the sum of S2,5OO.